Wired issued a Shock survey this week Based on records, including sound recordings, hundreds of emergency calls from US -Migration centers and customs housing (ICE). The calls-who include reports on incidents of sexual attacks by personnel, suicide attempts and head injuries-indicate system flooded by life-threatening incidents, late treatment and overgrowth.
In 6-3 decision on Friday, the US Supreme Court confirmed textile porn lawFinding that old control for explicit places is constitutional. In disagreement, Justice Elena Kagan warned that this determination ignores the precedent of a first amendment and will have privacy implications for adults.
Looking at the US bombing of Iranian nuclear websites last weekend, President Donald Trump posted initial announcements about the strikes on the social social network, which social, which then began to suffer intermittent interruptions. And Wired reported on Estimates of the damage to the nuclear locations based on satellite photos taken before and after the bombing.
Meanwhile, Taiwan shakes to make its own unmanned air vehicles At home as drones are getting more and more a crucial weapon of war. The urgency comes as a possible conflict with China. And Telegram launched a cleanup of Chinese cryptocurrency markets last month, banning black markets, which sold dozens of billions of dollars in crypto-scam-related services. Now, though, The markets re -enroll and bounce without further performance from the communication platform.
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Immigration and Customs Fulfillment (ICE) now use a mobile app called a cellphone fortress, which is supposed to allow agents to identify individuals showing a smartphone on their face or capturing contact fingerprints, 404 media reports. The app is reportedly inserting government databases, including the travel protection travel protection service and limit protection and DHS biometric smart system, in an attempt to match face images taken in the field against previous government collected records. ICE says the tool aims to help officers identify “unknown issues”, but civil liberties advocates tell 404 media that it may open the door to surveillance and unfair arrests.
Nathan released the ACLU’s Wessler said to the site, “face recognition technology is notably unreliable, often generating fake matches and results in some known wrong arrests across the country. Immigration agents dependent on this technology to try to identify people on the street is a recipe for disaster.
Global law this week announced a group’s bust of alleged cybercriminal hackers accused of making years of profit-focus data breaks and arrangement of a well-known cybercriminal forum and market known as Breachforums. French authorities arrested four members of the group, who presented the names “Shinyhunters”, “Hollow”, “Noct” and “Depressed”, although the police sources that shared the news with the French newspaper Le Parisien did not reveal the actual names of the suspects. The US Justice section, meanwhile, Criminally charged Kai WestA young British man, with a wide, multi -year -old hacking spy under the “Intelbroker” handle, which caused a total damage of $ 25 million against victims before he was arrested in February. In addition to hacking and selling vast holes of stolen data, the group – or at least some subset of its members – appears to have served as administrators for Breachforums, a well -known sales forum for cybercriminal information and tools that were closed in a bill in 2023, but were later relaunched by its staff.
The loose cyber criminal band known as scattered spider carried out data robberies and ransomware nuts for years, most recently aiming for the food industry, other traders and the insurance industry in the United States and Britain. Now analysts of cybersecurity at Networks Mandiant and Palo Alto say the group turns their attention to the aviation and transport sector. Specifically, hackers were behind a cybersecurity incident last week, which laid down some IT systems and the mobile program for Canadian airline Westjet, reports Axios. Now Hawaiian Airlines said it is undergoing a “cybersecurity incident” influencing its network, although it has not yet revealed more details or any evidence that a spider has been responsible. Cybersecurity companies tracking the group warn that other potential aviation and transportation industrial goals must seek the group, which often uses sophisticated social engineering to deceive staff to let them bypass multi-actual authentication and get a walk on target systems.
Here is a curiosity that we missed a few weeks ago: a rare industrial control system a hijacking incident in which an unknown hacker seems to have interfered with the computer systems that control the Lake Risevatnet Dam in southwestern Norway, opening a valve to its maximum configuration. The manipulation, the motivation, which was far from clear, increased the dam of the dam by almost 500 liters a second, but did not approach approach to a dangerous level. No one seems to have seen the change for almost four hours. Officials told the Norwegian Energy newsletter Energetic techniqueWhich broke the story that a weak password in an network-access control panel allowed the unauthorized access.
